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Every October, the writer-director-actor Brianna Lee sets herself a gloriously punishing challenge: five brand-new horror shorts, each written, directed, edited and headlined by her, released as part of her annual Halloween Nights series on Bloodstream. Having worked my way through this year's batch, a run
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Every year around this time, the writer-director Brianna Lee unleashes a fresh batch of horror shorts for her Halloween Nights series, streaming exclusively on Bloodstream, and this year she was kind enough to send five of them my way for an early look. Having reviewed her earlier shorts Home
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Bump in the Night, Brianna Lee's short film, is a tidy little slice of domestic dread that builds its tension beautifully before stumbling slightly at the final hurdle. The last of her Halloween Nights shorts I worked through, it is effectively creepy for most of its length, and
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Every now and then a short film pulls off a twist so cleanly that it reframes everything you have just watched, and Your Ticket Is Ready, Brianna Lee's short film, is one of those. The pick of her Halloween Nights shorts, it is a genuinely brilliant little ghost
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Tag, Brianna Lee's short film, is a game of marital horror that packs a decent amount of nastiness into its six minutes. Another of her Halloween Nights shorts, it is a touch slight and a little let down by its build-up, but it has a wicked streak
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Hungry, Brianna Lee's short film, is a lean and nasty little horror piece that gets a surprising amount of blood on the screen in a very short space of time. It is the first of her Halloween Nights shorts I worked through, and while it is far too
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Brianna Lee has been incredibly busy lately. Her feature The Troll premiered at Raindance this year and her short The Camper is playing the horror circuit, and she does very nearly every job on her films herself. Home is something else entirely. It is an eight-minute short, having had
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Brianna Lee is one of those filmmakers who simply does the lot. On her debut feature The Troll she wrote, directed, produced, edited and took the lead role, and it earned her a nomination for Best Performance in a Debut Feature when it world premiered at the 34th Raindance Film
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